National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-3482

Overview

Fetchmail 5.0.8 through 6.3.21, when using NTLM authentication in debug mode, allows remote NTLM servers to (1) cause a denial of service (crash and delayed delivery of inbound mail) via a crafted NTLM response that triggers an out-of-bounds read in the base64 decoder, or (2) obtain sensitive information from memory via an NTLM Type 2 message with a crafted Target Name structure, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2012-02.txt

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2012-02.txt

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_fetchmail

Hyperlink:https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_fetchmail

External Source: BID

Name: 54987

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54987

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120813 Re: CVE ID request for fetchmail segfault in NTLM protocol exchange

Hyperlink:http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q3/232

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120813 CVE ID request for fetchmail segfault in NTLM protocol exchange

Hyperlink:http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q3/230

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2012-14462

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/088836.html